There's an review by Christopher Kelly of "this new hit drama about high school football could be great-and not just television great, but great in the way of a poem or painting"* Friday Night Lights in the January 2007 issue of Texas Monthly, and he finds a way to describe the show like I haven't been able to for months.
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My only point what that I'm not the only Texan who feels like I got handed the short end of the stereotyping stick, and I think Christopher Kelly articulated the argument it well.
But I do think that as a group that lives in one of the most unique cities in Texas, it seems as though more people ought to feel it is an injustice to maintain the idea within the national entertainment stream that Texas is all small towns obsessed with drinking beer, driving trucks, and football. It's a matter of not understanding how more people don't feel the way I do about how the show stereotypes Texans. Just because it's what people want to see doesn't make it less offensive.
And one more correction: Kelly is an entertainment reviewer, not solely a movie guy.
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*I kinda wish we were having such a heated convo about the travesties in Darfur, but alas...*
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